High energy, absurdist, political, crime comedy is exactly what I showed up for and Boots Riley delivered again with his second feature. A flamboyant, psychedelic, fever dream. I live to see films in the theater that subvert my expectations and while this didn’t throw bizarre curveballs quite on par with Sorry To Bother You, it did the trick. I love the ridiculousness of it all. The bright, kaleidoscopic color palette and costuming that exists somewhere between Bootsy Collins and Jobu…

I don’t have any connection to cars. My car is the same thing to me as a hammer or a couch. So it was difficult to connect to whatever it is the characters in Two Lane Blacktop are chasing. Whatever it is the film sells it and I believed these tuned out young people in 1971 were serious about it. I grew up around muscle car people who spent the weekends cruising the circuit around town on the weekends and…

I was really looking forward to this film. I wish I had nicer things to say. At its most benign, The Last Dive is emotionally manipulative. The editing is…creative. At its worst? There’s a LOT of potentially harmful misinformation presented in this documentary and that’s a shame. I’ve been diving with the oceanic mantas at The Boiler out at Revillagigedo. They are intelligent animals and they do seek interaction with scuba divers there. However, to suggest the subject of this…